The long, cold ride ends at last Two days after the self-proclaimed “Last Great Race” came to an end in Nome, a Brazilian cyclist now living in Boulder, Colo., led the […]
Winners all
Yukon convergence
Iditarod races hit Ruby The winter, crossroad community of Ruby, Alaska – where the Iditarod Trail meets the frozen Yukon River was a busy place today with Norway’s dynamic, dog-driving […]
Last survivors
Human-powered Iditarod stalls And then there were but seven left as the Iditarod Trail Invitational 1000 from Knik to Nome stalled out Thursday on the edge of the vast and unpeopled nothingness […]
Good-bye Gold Loop
The “Gold Loop Trail” especially planned for the pandemic-plagued Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race of 2021 is no more thanks to another body blow from Mother Nature. Iditarod Race Marshall Mark Nordman […]
The finest
The nicest guy ever to win the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race died Thursday at his home in Ruby on the south bank of the Yukon River in wild Central Alaska. Emmitt […]
Lost in time
Two veterans of Alaska’s first Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race – men who did not meet until two years ago despite being almost neighbors – are teaming to try to track down […]
No it didn’t
Forty-one years ago, a now defunct newspaper – the Anchorage Times – declared the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race was created to “commemorate the historic trip made by 25 mushers to deliver […]
